Regulate vs Pal by Mind Rnwd

Meditation asks you to sit still, close your eyes, and breathe. If your heart is pounding, or you feel nothing at all, that can make things worse. Regulate is not a meditation app. It's a nervous system app: short, active, body-first exercises matched to the state you're actually in. Pick how you feel, get the right tool, use it for 1 to 3 minutes, then rate how you feel. That's the whole loop. Built from lived experience of PTSD recovery and four years of somatic work, for the people meditation apps didn't work for. FOUR STATES. THE RIGHT TOOL FOR EACH. ANXIOUS / PANIC - Physiological Sigh: a double inhale and long exhale, one of the best-studied quick ways to help your body settle (2023 Stanford randomized trial) - Pattern Breaker: a cognitive interrupt for racing panic loops - Geode Release: rapid tapping to burn through the surge - Pressure Gauge: tap fast to drive the needle through the redline, then let it fall with one long exhale NUMB / FREEZE - Pendulum: follow a slow swing left and right and tap each side at the peak, with a soft tone in each ear - 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding: sensory anchoring to bring you back online - Focus Follow: smooth-pursuit eye tracking ANGRY / FRUSTRATED - Chaos Release: a physical discharge shake game - Tension Release: find and release the tension your body is holding - Haul: drag a heavy rope down with slow, full pulls; it gets heavier as you go BALANCED / FLOW - Regulate Breath: a 1:2 inhale-to-exhale ratio, the slow pace HRV research points to - Current: rest a fingertip on a wandering light and follow it WHY BODY-FIRST WORKS When your nervous system is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, thinking your way out rarely works. Regulate's exercises are rooted in breathing science, somatic psychology, and nervous system research: science-backed techniques that work through the body. Breath, movement, bilateral stimulation, and sensory grounding. Every exercise is interactive and animated, with haptic feedback that gives your hands something to do. TRACK WHAT ACTUALLY HELPS Rate how you feel after every exercise. Earn XP, build streaks, hit daily goals, and see which tools work best for your nervous system, not someone else's. A gentle daily nudge, at the time you choose, helps you come back to it. REGULATE+ The four base state exercises are free, unlimited, forever. Regulate+ unlocks: - The full exercise menu for every state - Pattern Insights: hourly patterns, best times of day, effectiveness tracking - Custom Daily Goals: set multiple goals that fit your life - Protocol Builder: build your own exercise sequences - Morning, midday and evening reminder slots - Favorites: one tap to the tools that work for you - PDF progress report (CSV and JSON export stay free) $4.99/month or $34.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Your nervous system isn't broken. It's doing its job, just a little too well. Regulate helps you work with it. Not meditation. Regulation. --- Regulate is a self-care tool, not a medical device, and is not a substitute for professional care. Terms of Use: https://getregulate.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://getregulate.app/privacy.html

Some days you don’t need advice. You need comfort. Pal is a quiet companion for the moments that are hard to name. Tap how you’re feeling — anxious, overwhelmed, irritable, sad, hurt, discouraged — and receive scripture-rooted support written the way a trusted friend would offer it. Not a lecture. Not a platitude. Just something true, held out gently. WHAT PAL OFFERS Name what you feel. Six emotions, chosen because they’re the ones people actually carry. One honest tap is enough to begin. Scripture that meets you where you are. Every card is written with care — no verse stretched past its meaning, no pressure to forgive before you’re ready, no suggestion that fear is a failure of faith. Fear and trust are allowed to live side by side. Breathe it through. Four guided breathing patterns for when your body needs to settle before your mind can. Notice what’s good. A gratitude practice rooted in Philippians 4:8 — training your attention toward what is true, lovely, and worthy of praise, not only what is heavy. WHO PAL IS FOR For anyone holding faith while their body or mind feels like it’s betraying them. For the exhausted. For the quietly anxious. For those who have received comfort and want somewhere to keep receiving it. WHAT PAL IS NOT Pal is not therapy and not a crisis service. It doesn’t diagnose, and it will never tell you that professional help is a lack of faith — care from a doctor or counsellor is God’s provision too. If you’re in danger, please contact local emergency services or a crisis line. SIMPLE BY DESIGN No streaks. No badges. No pressure to show up daily. Pal is designed to feel gentle for people who are visually sensitive, motion-sensitive, or easily overstimulated. The colours are soft, the screens are simple, and unnecessary visual movement is kept to a minimum. Pal is here when you need it and quiet when you don’t. “Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” — 2 Corinthians 1:4 Made in the Philippines, from lived experience. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mindrnwd.com/privacy-policy/